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I would scream in my sleep: Women from Syria's Alawite minority tell of kidnap and rape9 hours agoShareSaveBBC News ArabicShareSaveBBCWarning: This report contains accounts of sexual assault and violence that some readers may find distressing.
Ramia was preparing for a family picnic, on a warm summer day in her village in Latakia province in western Syria, when a white car drove up, she said.
Three armed men got out, saying they were government security forces, and dragged her into the vehicle, the teenager, whose name has been changed for her safety and to protect her identity, told the BBC World Service.
The men beat her, she said, hitting her harder when she started crying and screaming.
“One of them asked if I was Sunni or Alawite. When I said Alawite, they began insulting the sect,” she added.
Ramia is one of dozens of women reported kidnapped since the fall of the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024.
The Syrian Feminist Lobby (SFL), an advocacy group for women&#..

Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files 'cover-up' in BBC interview1 hour agoShareSaveJessica ParkerBerlin correspondent, BerlinShareSaveWatch: Hillary Clinton asked about Epstein links and if Andrew should testifyHillary Clinton has accused US President Donald Trump's administration of a “cover-up” over its handling of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“Get the files out. They are slow-walking it,” the former US secretary of state told the BBC in Berlin, where she attended the annual World Forum.
The White House insisted that by releasing the files they had done “more for the victims than Democrats ever have”.
Millions of new files relating to the late sex offender Epstein were released by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) earlier this month.
At the time, the deputy attorney general said three million pages were not released – due to the existence of personal medical files, graphic depictions of child abuse or other material ..

Trump says he will be 'indirectly' involved in Iran nuclear talks4 hours agoShareSavePeter Bowes,North America correspondentandChris GrahamShareSaveGetty ImagesThe president spoke to the press on board Air Force One on Monday, describing the talks as “very important”Donald Trump has said he will be “indirectly” involved in the talks between Iran and the United States which are due to begin in Geneva later on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, the US president added that he believed Iran wanted to make a deal over its nuclear programme.
The second round of talks in Switzerland follows repeated military threats against Iran over the country's deadly crackdown on anti-government protests and the ongoing dispute over its nuclear programme.
On Monday the foreign ministry in Tehran said it believed that the US position on the nuclear issue had moved towards “a more realistic one”.
Iran says Tuesday's meeting, mediated by Oman, will focus on its nuclea..

Trump's new world order has become real and Europe is having to adjust fast4 hours agoShareSaveKatya AdlerEurope editorShareSaveBBCDowntown Munich is best-known for chic shops and flashy fast cars but right now its streets are bedecked with posters advertising next generation drones.
“Europe's security under construction” boasts the slogan on an eye-catching set of sleek black-and-white photographs, festooned across a scaffolding-clad church on one of this town's best known pedestrian boulevards.
Such an unapologetic public display of military muscle would have been unimaginable here just a few years ago, but the world outside Germany is changing fast, and taking this country with it.
The southern region of Bavaria has become Germany's leading defence technology hub, focusing on AI, drones and aerospace.
Advertisements such as these that say “Europe's security under construction” would have been unthinkable in Germany not long agoPeople here, like most other Eu..

'It's never too late': Savannah Guthrie's new plea for mother's release as FBI analyses glove5 hours agoShareSaveGrace Eliza GoodwinShareSaveWatch: 'It is never too late to do the right thing' Savannah Guthrie saysSavannah Guthrie has issued a plea for her 84-year-old mother's release two weeks after she disappeared, urging anyone involved that “it is never too late to do the right thing”.
In the US TV anchor's latest video appeal, she addresses “whoever has her, or knows where she is”, adding that Nancy Guthrie's loved ones “still have hope”.
It comes as investigators analyse DNA found on a glove that they recovered. The glove being studied appears to match one that was worn by a suspect who appeared in doorbell-camera footage taken the night Nancy Guthrie went missing.
Authorities believe the suspect in the video kidnapped Guthrie in the early hours of the morning of 1 February.
The FBI said on Sunday that investigators recovered the..